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Suspending Pinoy Top Blogs

I’m suspending the Pinoy Top Blogs project indefinitely. The total number of blogs (2,283) it currently tracks is already too high that it crashes the server almost everyday. That’s the reason I also stopped approving additional registrations there.

I’m already spending $200 a month for the dedicated (with almost no income, well if you consider $6/month from Adsense an income) server. The rig is an AMD Opteron 246 (2×2.0GHz) with 2GB of RAM. An additional 2GB of memory will cost me a $600 (one-time) and hopefully that would solve the current server crisis. So, unless I could get a sponsor or an advertiser for that site which will cover the amount for the upgrade, I’m shutting it down indefinitely.

If you think you have a spare server that can carry the load (preferrably dual Xeon or Dual Opteron with 4GB of RAM) and would like to help out continue the project, I’ll be glad to offload the site to you. :)

P.S.
And no, I don’t think DH or MT will host this site for spare change.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

56 Responses

  1. Avatar for Macnerdz Macnerdz says:

    sayang naman ng project na yan.

  2. Avatar for Alice Alice says:

    para sa inyong Lahat ang comment ko! hi mo sa lahat, ang masasabi ko mas maganda sana at mas gaganda ang article nyo kung matitikman at malalasahan nyo ang aming Native filipino kakanin! I’m sure mararamdaman nyo na ikaw ay isang tunay na filipino sana at hope ko na umorder po kayo please!nag dedeliver po kami ng aming kakanin sa kahit anong okasyon, kung interested po kayo I’m alice just email us at kain****@****.***, Thank you po sa lahat!

  3. Avatar for pyth pyth says:

    “Large things start in small things..still suspended..”
    ramilcvaliente.blogspot.com

  4. Avatar for VeRTiTO VeRTiTO says:

    well, how about several suggestions like

    a. How about further optimization of server process loads and process threads by defining sql threshold queries and restrictions. If certain CPU load or SQL treshold queries are met, automatic temporary denial of access would be displayed to end users, say Come back after a minute or so, load maintenance is currently in effect something like that.

    Atleast, this way you can avoid server crashes, system reboots, downtime. Thus prolong server uptime and sql data reliability.

    b. How about creating additional swap file space and RAM disk space from your harddisk instead of additional physical RAM to achieve higher swap memory resources and availability. Say 10GB of additional swap file?

    Additional swap are handled by linux server almost identically with physical RAM, there’s a bit difference though but it works out right and doesn’t cost you a bit considering you have more disk space left.

    c. How about gathering country wide sponsorship like Philippines local TV station or radion station in return for permanent link or 100×100 image from this site. A very nice and polite letter will do just fine address to their CEOs. :) What is P100 peso of donation in one month from all these nationwaide TV and radio broadcasters?

    d. How about gathering old phased PII and PIII PCs and creating a clustered and distributed group of old machines providing round-robin load balancing among old phased PCs aimed to serve millions of SQL queries and website request? Old PCs are cheap anyway but can be a supercomputer when clusterically distributed with more old PCs too – sort of mini super computer PTS!

    e. Uh, some willing to contribute politicians perhaps? LOL
    Imagine a 70,000 hits a day for the upcoming needed “Presidential Electionaryo$” exposure$ is really high for atleast for one month!!! Talk about their pres candidates’ pictures pinned down around this site corners exposed to 70,000 daily viewers! Oh mama, that’s a real wide opener, LOL.

    f. How about a 80×80 JPG box for leading Philippine banks?

    g. Am not sure about this one in Philippines, but a perma donate link from here to leading Philippine Charity institutions or Philippines cancer donation groups. And for every click on that link, you get 1 peso and the rest goes to Philippines charity institutions. I received one kind of email like that and it was not a spam email as confirmed by my friend overseas located near the email address.

    i. Maybe more wishful thinking.

    Go up man. You’re doing great for all of us! Keep it up!

    Just dropping by.

    VerTiTo

  5. Avatar for Tara na Bloggers Sali na Tara na Bloggers Sali na says:

    Why not promote your blogsite via your profile, creating a bloggers group and blog about your blog site on my website. It has international audience, and hopefullu your site will be visited. You can create the link to your site via the blog you’ll write. That’s all, I just thought it’s one way of helping out my fellow pinoys but obviously it’s undeniably one way of building up my members list on my site.

  6. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    Hi,

    My impression of PBS is that it’s a portal for bloggers, not a blog.

  7. Avatar for PinoyBlogoSphere.com PinoyBlogoSphere.com says:

    Pwede po bang magpa-activate ng blog :) Baka pwede na pong matanggal yung suspension ng PBS simula pa noong December 2006 :D Yun lang po. Maraming salamat! ;)

    PinoyBlogoSphere.com

  8. Avatar for RNHalawi RNHalawi says:

    thanx!!!! im #42 now!!! good work mod!!

  9. Avatar for vertito vertito says:

    i dont get it why my blogsite is still suspended at this time… :(
    vertito.blogspot.com

  10. Avatar for vertito vertito says:

    i dont get it why my blogsite is still suspended at this time… :(

  11. Avatar for RNHalawi RNHalawi says:

    http://teampilipinas.blogspot.com – suspended pa din po blog ko about TEAM PILIPINAS BASKETBALL.. siguro dahil nga sa madaming visits ang nagegenerate ng blog ko… this JULY alone naka 60K visitors na ko… and mid-July pa lang.. anyway I hope na ma unSuspended na po blog ko.. thanx and more power!!!

  12. Avatar for pyth pyth says:

    Hoping my site will be activated soon, dont see any reason y it is suspended except not yet have the so called “sharing”..but will do later..thanks and Godbless.

  13. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    Hi! It was being used to track the PMT forum. PinoyTopBlogs is for blogs only.

  14. Avatar for iwuzscammed iwuzscammed says:

    i noticed that www.pinoymoneytalk.com is not anymore in the list? was it banned? why?

  15. Avatar for Rex Rex says:

    My site http://philmoney.blogspot.com is also suspended after many, many months.. I hope it could be unsuspended soon since I noticed it’s inching its way up the ranks.. :)

  16. Avatar for The Onlooker The Onlooker says:

    http://onlooker-josh.blogspot.com is still suspended.

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